In recent weeks the Responsible Endowment Project and Undergraduate Organizing Committee have gained attention on campus by alleging the Yale Investments Office has made unethical investments. One of their two primary complaints is that Yale’s investment in HEI Hotels and Resorts, a private equity fund manager that acquires and manages hotels, is an unethical one. »

With the collapse of Lehman and the Federal Reserve’s impending bailout of AIG, popular media and, in turn, students at Yale have begun to realize the gravity of our nation’s financial situation. Unlike past recessions, present economic woes were not engendered by declining demand. Rather, a most virulent contagion has struck the very core of »